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POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT by BURNS, ROBERT. (BINDINGS - RIVIERE)

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT
Author: BURNS, ROBERT. (BINDINGS - RIVIERE)
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell; and W. Creech, 1787. Third Edition; First London Edition, First State (with "stinking" instead of "skinking" in "To a Haggis"). 210 x 126 mm. (8 1/4 x 5"). xlviii, [13]-372 pp. With half title and the subscriber list [to the Edinburgh edition]. VERY FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), cover with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with acorn-and-lancet central ornament, floral vines at corners, gilt lettering, turn-ins with complex gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Burns. Gibson, p. 6; Egerer 2. ◆Perhaps pressed (not washed), but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY, quite clean and fresh internally, IN A SPARKLING BINDING with no signs of use. This is one of the most famous poetic publications in history, offered here in a most attractive copy of the first London printing (following an Edinburgh edition the same year and the extremely rare Kilmarnock first edition of 1786). Burns issued the poems at the age of 27 in order to raise passage money for a voyage to Jamaica, where he had been offered an agricultural post on a plantation. At a time when his contemporaries were searching for the "natural bard" and, in the process, had unearthed poetical threshers, poetical milk maidens, and poetical cobblers, the charming plowman Burns delivered his simple and beautiful lyrics with most propitious timing. He found himself famous almost at once, and his fame has not faltered over time, even though, after the appearance of the present work, he did little during the rest of his life except write songs and drink. The very attractive binding is the work of one of the longest-lived English binderies. Robert Riviere began as a bookseller and binder in Bath in 1829, then set up shop as a binder in London in 1840; in 1881, he took his grandson Percival Calkin into partnership, at which time the firm became known as Riviere & Son. The bindery continued to do business until 1939, when it was acquired by George Bayntun of Bath, a firm that is still producing fine work and is still in family hands..

Rare Transformation Playing Card by THACKERY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE

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Seller: Schulson Autographs

Title: Rare Transformation Playing Card
Author: THACKERY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: On a three of hearts playing card measuring 2 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches, Thackery incorporated the three red hearts into a pen and ink drawing he titled, "Allegorical Piece. Britannia treading under foot the Hydra of Anarchy and looking up to the British Lion." The card comes with two provenance notes. The first is a note explaining the card's origin. "I send you a card illustrated by Thackery when he came over on the steamship with my sister Mrs. Lowell in 1852...." Thackery went on a lecture in the United States between 1852-53. The second note dated January 1936 explains how the card passed into other hands. Thackery is best remembered for his novel, "Vanity Fair

Laws Concerning the Election of Members of Parliament.. by A Gentleman of the Inner Temple

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Title: Laws Concerning the Election of Members of Parliament..
Author: A Gentleman of the Inner Temple
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
Description: 1780. London: Printed... for W. Owen, 1780. "6th" ed.. London: Printed... for W. Owen, 1780. "6th" ed. One of the First Works To Draw on Blackstone's Commentaries A Gentleman of the Inner Temple, Editor. Laws Concerning the Election of Members of Parliament; With The Determinations of the House of Commons Thereon, And All Their Incidents: Continued Down to the Present Time. The Whole Digested Under Proper Titles. Also an Appendix of Precedents; With Considerable Improvements, And Additions, From the Best Authorities, To Which is Added a Copious Index. London: Printed by His Maiesty's [sic] Law Printers for W. Owen, 1780. xxxviii [i.e. xxxvii], [1], 118; [2], 119-192, *191-*192, 193-383, [21], 2 pp. Two parts, each with title page. Includes two-page publisher list. Title page of second part misbound. Octavo (5-1/4" x 7-3/4"). Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, blind ornaments and original lettering piece (with chipped edges) to spine, endpapers renewed. Early annotation to front endleaf, light foxing in a few places, interior otherwise fresh. Ex-library. Small inkstamps to title page and a few text leaves. A handsomely bound copy. $250. * "Sixth" edition, actually the third, the final edition of this work. The anonymous editor notes in the advertisement that he has drawn extensively on Comyns' Digest of the Laws of England, Lyttleton's Life of King Henry II, Whitelocke's Notes Upon the King's Writ for Choosing Members of Parliament (in Morton's edition) and Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. One of the very first books to draw on the Commentaries, Laws Concerning the Election is a landmark in the history of its reception by the English bar. It is also a remarkably thorough work that considers causes determined by parliamentary committee, the House of Commons and the laws of England, Scotland and Wales from 1382 to 1780. First published in 1768, with a second edition in 1774, it was based on an earlier anonymous work, Determinations in the House of Commons Concerning Elections, which went through five editions between 1741 and 1761. The "sixth" edition designation of the final edition is a reference to the earlier work. English Short-Title Catalogue T112824.

Rip Van-Winkle, Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series by WEBSTER, George P. [IRVING, Washington]

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Title: Rip Van-Winkle, Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series
Author: WEBSTER, George P. [IRVING, Washington]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1875. Wraps. Very good +. [POETRY]. 4to square (10 5/8" x 9"); stiff color pictorial wrapper, lettering and Rip Van Winkle on the front in a decorative border, publisher's ad on rear; 6 chromolithographed plates, small b&w illustrations in text; light scuffing to front pictorial, light shelf-wear to wrapper, a few small internal spots; very good plus. Washington Irving's (1783-1859) classic tale of a lazy and alcoholic local man named Rip Van Winkle told in rhyming verse by George Webster (1828-1899). A curious tale for children about a man who drinks alcohol and falls asleep for twenty years. The rear wrapper lists the publisher's book series including "Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series. 36 Kinds-25 Cents Each," "New Paper Dolls," "Dolly Varden Dolls," and "Chiromagica. Magical Hand and Mysterious Question-Answerer." Dolly Varden Dolls and the Chiromagica game were both published by McLoughlin in the 1870s.

Venini: Elenco luce 1983 by VENINI

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Title: Venini: Elenco luce 1983
Author: VENINI
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Front wrapper lightly sunned and with soft crease at top, otherwise a very good plus copy, clean and bright inside
Description: Venice: Venini, 1983. Front wrapper lightly sunned and with soft crease at top, otherwise a very good plus copy, clean and bright inside. Tall narrow (11.5 x 6 inches). [22] pages. Line schematics of lighting devices. Original spiral-bound wrappers, the rear wrapper unfolding with color codes in Italian, English, and French. Scarce trade catalogue of Venini lighting.

U.S. Army in the Korean War: South to Naktong, North to the Yalu, June-November 1950 [and] Ebb and Flow, November 1950-July 1951 [2 Volume Set] by Appleman, Roy E.; Mossman, Billy C.

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Title: U.S. Army in the Korean War: South to Naktong, North to the Yalu, June-November 1950 [and] Ebb and Flow, November 1950-July 1951 [2 Volume Set]
Author: Appleman, Roy E.; Mossman, Billy C.
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Washington DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2000. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 10" X 6 7/8". xxiv, 813pp, plus 8 fold-out maps bound to rear; xviii, 551pp. Both volumes bound in black cloth over boards, with US Army insignia stamped in gilt to upper boards and spines lettered in gilt over red. Mild edgewear to bindings, with gentle bumping to extremities and light dust soiling to cloth. Bindings are firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable set of these two publications from the United States Army's Center of Military History, chronicling June 1950 to July 1951 of the Korean War.

World Series Encyclopedia by Allen, Mel (Introduction); Schiffer, Don (Editor)

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Title: World Series Encyclopedia
Author: Allen, Mel (Introduction); Schiffer, Don (Editor)
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. Wraps rubbed, warped, and edgeworn, laminate peeling, else a good copy with a creased spine.

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